Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
Successful Eastern Shoreman.
A TALK ON A TRAIN WITH ONE OF THEM.
The DELAWARE RAILROAD,

ON THE TRAIN, Mar. 5, 1887.
" Who are the most successful Eas-
tern Shoreman in business ?-that is,
who have got rich the fastest ?"
"Well, there are few, if more than
one, wealthy Eastern Shoremen, as
that term is now used,-and, of course,
business opportunities for making large
fortunes are not abundant in any rural
section.
:" Mr.. Tome? yes, if you call Jacob
Tome an Eastern ShOreman, you must
put him down as the wealthiest by far,
and as he lives in Port Deposit, which
is geographically an Eastern Shore
town we may call him an Eastern
ShOreman.
"Ten millions? | should think not.
but certainly he must be worth five or
six millions. He owns several banks,
many bonds, stocks and mortgages,
considerable real estate here aud i'm
mense tracts of timber lands in the
Northwest. Mr.. Tones has made all
his wealth himself and made it chiefly
in the lumber and banking business.
He is now an old man, but as active
and alert in business matters as ever.
He has no children. His present wife
is his second, and is a young woman.
Likely Hon. John A. J. Cresswell, his
nephew will be his principal heir.
George B Westcott*, of Kent county
is another gentleman who has large
fortune for these parts, and is worth
probably between one and two millions,
accumulated in a long business career.
MIR. Westcott has been a very skillful
hnancier. He is also a banker, but not
to the extent that Mr.. Tome is. His
son, G.. Il. WestcOtt, inherits his fathers
business ability and his propensity for
money making. If he has career as
long as his fathers has been (Mr.
Westcott, Sr., is older than Mr.. Tome)
he will be the rich man of the Shore.
Thomas w. Eliason, of Chester.
town, has also been very successful
business man, and has quite a large
| fortune. As a merchant he has been
very successful; likewise as an agricul-
| turist, and he owns some of the finest
farms in Kent, Queen Anne's and Tai.
bot county. | would not be surprised
if Richard Hynson, of Chestertown
has made more money than any Other
Eastern Shore professional man, unless
James U. Dennis, of Somerset, has beat
him in This respect.
a" Yes, | had forgot about John B
Brown, of Centreville. He is a money
making lawyer, and the report is he i.
getting rich very fast Col. McKenny
of the same county, is perhaps the rich
est farmer we have got on the Shore
as he is certainly the largest and is con
stantly increasing his bounds.
There have been no large fortunes
made on the Eastern Shore in farmins
exclusively. That business has helped
and the buying and selling of rea
estate has materially aided may peopl,
in. building up their fortunes and unde
the old plantation regime there wer,
some planters whose broad acres ant
hundreds of negroes gave them IN,
reputation of being rich, when the,
were not. Lots of Independent anC
comfortable farmers we've got. VIII,
never do any other kind of business
but they are not milliOnaires, Cultiva
ting the soil don't make miliiOnaires.
Talking of successful men tn
Jacksons of Wicomico,-I mean tn
lumber people,-have made grea
deal of money. am told the firm i
worth a million, at least, and million
in that business. you know, ought t
soon double itself. The lumber busi
ness must always be a profitable on
when rightly conducted.
Here we are close to Porter's.
must go to the Baltimore car. Yo
are going to Philadelphia? Well, good
bye"
Mr.. WestcOtt has since died. Sc
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